QuickBooks Online Plus

Time tracking—how it works

Time Tracking is available as a Plus feature.

With Time Tracking, you can allow an unlimited number of employees to have "time-entry" access.

Time Tracking allows you to easily track time, so that you can bill customers for that time and pay employees for the hours worked.

Employees or contractors simply fill out time sheets from any PC connected to the Internet. To keep your finances protected, you can give these users "time-entry" only access and then choose whether or not to restrict them from seeing their billing rate. Charges for their time can appear on the client or customer invoice. For employees, the time they have entered flows right into payroll where you can review the hours and print paychecks.

Time Billing

You can choose to assign each particular time activity to a project or customer and choose whether to bill your customers for that time.

Based on the rates you specify, and whether or not the time is billable, time information will automatically appear on customer invoices. The amount of detail included on customer invoices is up to you, including:

• The employee's name.
• The number of hours and the rate you are charging the customer.

For the invoice description, you can show one of the following:

• Text from the Description field on the time sheet.
• The name of the standard service you are using.
• A standard description.
• A customized description particular to that invoice.